On June 12th Tom Sharpe, Commissioner of the Federal Acquisition Service (FAS), posted a new blog entitled “Modernizing GSA’s Schedules Program for Today’s Marketplace.” As you may recall, earlier this year GSA published its Strategic Plan for the next four years. The plan did not set forth a strategic vision for the MAS program—a troublingRead… Read more »
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Coming into Focus: CBG Round-up, 06.20.2014
Gadi Ben-Yehuda Getting a clearer picture. This week I’ve read a lot of things that I either didn’t know, or didn’t realize were important. These articles brought them into focus for me, and as I review them, they seem to point at larger meanings and trends. Mark Headd published “Built to Fail,” about why governmentRead… Read more »
12 Books to Help You Do Your Job Better – Plus the 7 Gov Stories
On GovLoop Insights’ DorobekINSIDER: Sometimes you can’t choose your supporting cast. You have to manage what you have and make the best of it. Managers sometimes inherit employees they don’t know how to develop and they must work directly with peers they don’t mesh with. But the best leaders will always find a way toRead… Read more »
Winning Over The Team You Didn’t Choose
The 2013 4-12 Philadelphia Eagles were a football team in turmoil, and that’s putting it lightly. After their dismal season they changed the guard and hired college football offense virtuoso Chip Kelly from Oregon. Like all new hires he inherited a team he neither recruited, nor built. But he worked with the assets before him.Read… Read more »
Making IT Investments That Last
Implementing new government IT projects is often a long and arduous process for government. Budget and staff cuts, advancing technologies, outdated procurement processes and more can leave officials feeling unequipped to make their next big IT move. So in this environment, how can government chief information officers (CIOs) strategize to invest in the right ITRead… Read more »
What to Wear: How Wearables Could Shape Government – DorobekINSIDER Live
A special edition of GovLoop’s DorobekINSIDER was held Wednesday. We’re LIVE! We host these events once each month this year. The idea is simple: get smart people together and share ideas — because we believe that the real power of information comes when it is shared. LISTEN TO THE ARCHIVE The wearable tech craze hasRead… Read more »
The Buck Stops… Where? Who Is Accountable in Gov?
It’s been more than eight months since CNN and the Arizona Republic began reporting about veterans dying while they were waiting for medical services—in some cases, on secret lists that clinics were maintaining to hide the long delays from authorities in the Department of Veterans Affairs. Since then, Secretary Eric Shinseki has stepped down, bonusesRead… Read more »
What’s Best For You? The Pros and Cons of Flexible Workplace Situations
Is telecommuting right for you and your agency? When Marissa Mayer took the reins of Yahoo! and announced that the cutting-edge tech giant was pulling back on its policy of employee telecommuting, shock waves reverberated throughout the American workplace. The discussion that followed had people taking sides based on an all-or-nothing view of telecommuting (orRead… Read more »
The Power of Networks: On Joining GovDelivery & GovLoop as Civic Innovator-in-Residence
As a student of civic technology for some years now, it’s rare that I come across numbers that stun me. I’ve grown accustomed to typical facts and figures echoed by players in the space: X engaged users, Y partner governments. Typically, you’ll see some breakouts but, like many things, most fall somewhere in the middle.Read… Read more »
Lessons Learned – Tips For A Successful Technology Implementation
It’s not new to say that technology is having a significant impact on modern life. As technology becomes smaller, cheaper, and faster, staying up-to-date can be challenging. This is especially true for public sector organizations where procurement hasn’t caught up to new ways of using or implementing technology. As government works through modernization, implementing large-scaleRead… Read more »